Lina Wertmuller

I've always been an angel. Sometimes I transform into a witch only because the filmmaking demands it.

— Lina Wertmuller

Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.

— Lina Wertmuller

I am a director. I'm the one who can order men around.

— Lina Wertmuller

Ah, in work, love and the movies, everything is a fight.

— Lina Wertmuller

For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them.

— Lina Wertmuller

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

— Lina Wertmuller

To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.

— Lina Wertmuller

I know they call me a crazy lady, but I'm only interested in making movies and having people see them.

— Lina Wertmuller

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

— Lina Wertmuller

When you make many films with the same actors you can develop a special understanding with them. I love working with people…

— Lina Wertmuller

When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read…

— Lina Wertmuller

The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.

— Lina Wertmuller

Film is my big problem. I am involved too much. I love too much. I've been trying to resolve it for 35…

— Lina Wertmuller

I don't think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sundays when there's a little boredom, you should always carry a gun.…

— Lina Wertmuller

I love life. I love my friends. I love to eat. Too many things, I love. I am very much an anti-historical…

— Lina Wertmuller

My first customer is myself. When I tell a story I like, I can sleep easy. I'm sorry when audiences don't like…

— Lina Wertmuller

Even American artists are terrorized by market forces. If one can't see the films, my wings are clipped. I am no longer…

— Lina Wertmuller

What is important is not that you have a defeat but how you react to it. There is always the possibility to…

— Lina Wertmuller

My two souls, the socially conscious one and the lighthearted one, are always in my movies because they find a perfect habitat…

— Lina Wertmuller

if I love something I do it, and if I don't, I don't. I think that this is the most important choice…

— Lina Wertmuller

I adore the work of Lucas and Spielberg. I'm certainly not trying to minimize their talents, but I'd love to see what…

— Lina Wertmuller

When I was a girl, we all wanted to have fun. That's all we thought about. It didn't occur to us to…

— Lina Wertmuller